Article by
Sandy Deane

Published on
May 21, 2018

Attorney and political activist David Comissiong has declared his hands calling on Barbadians to make Mia Mottley the next Prime Minister of the country come Thursday and slamming Freundel Stuart as a leader with despotic tendencies.

In a hard-hitting speech tonight at the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) mass meeting at Silver Sands, Christ Church, Comissiong, whose support over the years has shifted from various political parties, insisted that Mottley was the leader for Barbados at this time.

The political activist who has been a constant thorn for the Stuart administration, launching or threatening legal action to stop some Government projects, tonight, said he was laying his cards on the table regarding his political position in the 2018 general election.

He said Barbadians could not take another five years of a Stuart-led administration and called on them to elect a woman “who was from some very good stock” and who was a “brilliant daughter of the nation”.

In a presentation that was supposed to be restricted to five minutes as was the case with the candidates who had spoken earlier, Comissiong was allowed to speak for half-hour.

In his presentation, he declared that he was Mia Mottley’s cousin and that she was a great leader who had come from fine “stock” explaining that Mottley’s mother was his aunt.

Wearing a red shirt and confessing that it was not by accident that he wore the colours of the BLP, Comissiong, however, insisted that he was not a member of the opposition party.

He told the crowd he was there in solidarity with Mottley before launching a broadside on Stuart. He said the Prime Minister’s announcement to pull out of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) if he retained office, was a sign of something more concerning for Barbadians.

He said Stuart’s declaration would lead to the loss of any independent review of judicial decisions in Barbados because he argued that Stuart would not be returning to the Privy Council either.

“He is saying that there will be no outside court. . . .As Prime Minister, he will be appointing the judges,” Comissiong told the BLP supporters. (IMC)

“”THE PEOPLE’S Empowerment Party (PEP) is resuscitated, revived, re-energised, and ready to rumble.

Party leader David Comissiong, speaking to the WEEKEND NATION yesterday prior to the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) organised March for Justice, said they were ready to make a splash during the next elections, constitutionally due in 2018.
“The PEP is resuscitating its political programme. We have written to the Electoral and Boundaries Commission and we will be fielding candidates next election,” he said.””

@Patty; are you referring to Attorney Comissiong? Do you know that Comissiong is the only one that knows the laws of Barbados, your PM like to say the he is a lawyer for 25 years and every case he brought, he lost, local and at the CCJ., that`s the reason he is talking about pulling out and forming his own, if it was possible he would pull out of Barbados too. Comissiong is the one that stop the finger printing of barbadians leaving and entering barbados or they would be lining up at the airport like sheep putting your finger in a hole, if the waiting time when coming in is so long, imagine the time it would take to get out while waiting on line to be finger printed although they were some stupid ones willing and ready.

“”Over the past four years, the Peoples Empowerment Party (PEP) has consistently put forward a comprehensive six-point plan for the resuscitation and development of Barbados’ economy. But our society – led by the intellectually lazy Democratic Labour Party (DLP) and Barbados Labour Party (BLP) – has failed to take a serious look at our prescription. It is clear to us that the solution to Barbados’ economic predicament has to be multi-pronged. And it is equally (and tragically) clear that the economic prescriptions of the DLP and BLP are fatally deficient in that””DAVID COMISSIONG(NATION NEWSPAPER)

THIS MAN CANT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. He is the KING of flips flops. He says one thing today and tomorrow he says the exact opposite on the same issue. He does not see any connection between Monday and Tuesday.

“””…. The Barbados Labor Party hierarchy, on the other hand, has hand-picked a dentist who is not known for having ever made a contribution to, or an intervention in, any issue of national significance. Clearly, in this case, the traditional system has failed the people of Christ Church West! “””
DAVID COMISSIONG(NATION NEWSPAPER)

Comissiong told the media he firmly believes he has been appointed as “Minister of Responsibility” and he intends to act in the best interest of Barbadians in upholding justice.

“We are all called upon humbly to be ministers of love and justice and righteousness and all of us must resolve to be the protectors of our country to where we believe that something is going wrong… to do God’s will in an active, determined manner.”